Hi, Some of you might be interested in reading the summary of the first meeting of the newly reformed Ubuntu NZ loco team. If anyone has any questions, feel free to drop by #ubuntu-nz and look for Plug.
Craig - Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone who made it to the IRC meeting yesterday. The full log is available at http://irclogs.dannz.net/Freenode/%23ubuntu-nz/2006/2006-10-03.log.html - here are the "minutes" of the meeting: Meetings ======== Craig discussed other LoCo teams hold regular IRC meetings and it was agreed that having a fortnightly meeting would be sensible, moving to monthly if there is not much to discuss. Meetings would allow us to check up on our goals and modify them if necessary. Tasks to attempt ================ The following ideas came up in the meeting: Language packs -------------- There are no packaged OpenOffice.org dictionaries for New Zealand. There are -au packages in Universe that could be used as a base, and there are also en_NZ and mi_NZ dictionaries on the openoffice.org web site. Some information about this can be found already at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocalCustomisation/NewZealand. KillerKiwi (Jason?) has an interest in this and we suggested he start asking people with a view to: - packaging en_NZ in a similar fashion to en_AU - getting interested people to help with the en_GB translations project (which will feed en_NZ and en_AU) Newsletter ---------- stinger (Simon) has volunteered to investigate the first issue of a planned bi-monthly newsletter for NZ Linux users; picking news from local sources and the UWNs. It might take the form of an e-mail, a blog or a web/wiki page. The success of the first newsletter will probably decide if it's worth taking the idea further. NZ graphics package ------------------- A package or repository, of open-content pictures of NZ scenery would make a good addition to both Ubuntu and the NZ Linux community. Plug (Craig) will put the word out to some photographers. Summary ======= This seems like a good list of things to go on with. I would like to make a go at these goals and if all goes well, approach the Community Council for registration in about a month or so. I can only assume meetings will probably continue to be very informal and regular IRC presence will probably mean you'll already know everything that we'd talk about anyway. Tuesday had a good turnout - if you are opposed to Tuesdays for any reason, please contact me off list, and if enough people mail in, I'll set up something to pick another day. Regards Craig -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
